The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Enterprise Holdings, has announced a three-year, $3 million grant to the National Urban League for an urban leadership development initiative.

The grant will support the Whitney M. Young Jr. Center for Urban Leadership, which aims to develop Urban League leaders by providing tools in administration and fund development to the Urban League's network of nearly one hundred U.S. affiliates. Enterprise Holdings also will help the Urban League celebrate its centennial by encouraging its employees to sign up for a social mobilization campaign designed to attract new members and donors to the organization and by participating in the Urban League's Founder's Day on September 29, which will be commemorated with a series of community service projects around the country.

In 2002, Enterprise Holdings chairman and CEO Andy Taylor, who is a National Urban League trustee, served as general chairman of the Urban League's national conference in Los Angeles. Enterprise Holdings also funded a 2004 National Urban League study measuring employee attitudes toward diversity in the workplace.

"We are pleased to continue our support of the National Urban League's efforts to empower communities and change lives," said Taylor. "The league is a great ally to the business community. It does a great job of connecting businesses with the community at large, and it understands how each must work together to bring about positive change."